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"Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day."
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"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."
"When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?"
"My greatest day is yet to come. Of all the things that I've accomplished, my greatest day is yet to come. But it will never come if I don't pursue it."
"I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary."
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"Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off."
"Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other."
"Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command."
"Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver."
"If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny."
"I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good."
"The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall."
"Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion."
"It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure."
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